[OSM-talk] Welcome box on the new map page

[Maarten Deen]

On 2013-11-30 13:51, Rob Nickerson wrote:
>> How do I close the "Welcome to openstreetmap" box on the new map
> page?

[snip]
> On the subject of the "Welcome Text", the idea of being able to close
> the welcome box was discussed but ultimately not implemented. The box
> does go away if you log in. I should add that the decision to not be
> able to close the welcome box for non-logged in users was a design
> choice by the main developer of this redesign (that is it may not
> reflect the opinion of other OSM community members, system admins, or
> developers). This means that you are welcome to submit a change to the
> website's code if you wish and it will be considered as with all other
> changes.
> 
> I appreciate that this may not be what you wanted to hear, but as with
> any big change, there is likely to be a few teething issues.

Yeah. This is a bad decision. That means that non-logged in users (which 
is any user that does not have an account, and that would be the 
majority of the users of the map page, if it is successful) will be 
bothered by this box all the time.
I do have an account but I am not logged in most of the time. Why? When 
I'm not working at my computer, I'm not logged in. And when I'm working 
at my computer, after x days I'm not logged in (you may be aware that 
you get logged out after a certain number of days, even when you check 
the box "remember me". Apparently openstreetmap don't want to remember 
me.)

So yes: this is a bad decision and I can only ask to make something that 
you can close this box ASAP.

Just out of curiosity: what reasoning was there behind leaving something 
like this on on the map? Cleary the whole redesing is geared to 
unclutter the map page, and it does succeed in that. Then why have this 
annoying box there?

Regards,
Maarten